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Roger Simmons
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Birds, Words, Pics + TV

What’s that bird? Maybe it’s a Yellow Warbler

Roger Simmons, August 20, 2023August 20, 2023

I’ve been birding since January, and just when I feel like I am getting the hang of identifying birds in the wild, one will throw me a curveball. Meet the latest to do that.

I was at the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive a week ago when I noticed this bright yellow little bird in some bushes behind me. The sun was still coming up, and the lighting was bad, but I was able to get a few pictures of it. Then about 10 minutes later, in a different location, I saw another bird with the same bright yellow coloring and took more pictures (not great ones, though). But I still didn’t know what it was.

A possible Yellow Warbler makes a late summer appearance along Lake Apopka in August 2023.

Cornell’s wonderful Merlin birding app, my go-to source for birding IDs, couldn’t give me a positive identification from my less-than-ideal photos. It said it was either a Yellow Warbler, a Nashville Warbler or a Chestnut-sided Warbler. With a little more research, I was able to quickly eliminate the Chestnut. And this really didn’t look like a Nashville Warbler either. But a Yellow Warbler seemed to be a pretty rare bird around here.

Yesterday, I visited Lake Apopka again to try to get some better pictures of the mystery yellow birds. They weren’t there, but a couple of birders who also saw the birds last week were. They said the birds were Yellow Warblers.

So, we’re going to call these Yellow Warblers – at least for now. There’s still a good chance they might be something else – Prothonotary Warbler, perhaps? – but I guess we will never know for sure.

This could be a Yellow Warbler. It could be a Prothonotary Warbler. Or it could be something else. Taken at Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive in August 2023.
Yellow Warblers appear in Central Florida during their migration, like this one (maybe?) at Lake Apopka in August 2023.
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